Professor Dermot Kelleher FMedSci, who will be appointed Principal of the Faculty of Medicine on 1 October, has accepted the concurrent appointment as Dean of the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine in Singapore with effect from 1 August 2012. As Dean Professor Kelleher will lead the next phase of the development of the School, a partnership between Imperial and Nanyang Technological University (NTU), which was established in 2010 to train more doctors to meet Singapore’s future healthcare demands.
Professor Kelleher will succeed Professor Stephen Smith FMedSci, the Founding Dean of the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, who remains NTU’s Vice President of Research.